Episode 2: Climate change - a better day after tomorrow

06/10/2021 43 min
Episode 2: Climate change - a better day after tomorrow

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Episode Synopsis

From the melting ice-sheets to mass extinctions, from wildfires and extreme weather to whole islands washing away into the sea, there are few issues more impactful and demanding of our attention than climate change.

In this episode, the second of our podcast series 'A Better Tomorrow', we dig a little deeper as we try to find out what’s happening to our world and what, if anything, we can do about it.

In this episode, you can…

Hear about the past, present and possible future of our world’s glaciers and ice sheets from Dr James Lea, Senior Lecturer in Glaciology at the University of Liverpool, and the impacts their loss might have on all us.

Learn why climate change is such a concern for the city of Dhaka and how the historical homeland and burial ground of a Native American tribe will soon disappear from Dr Madhu Dutta-Koehler from Boston University, and why dealing with these things is no easy feat.

Hear about the impact of climate change on the flora and fauna all around us from Kate Norgrove, Executive director of advocacy and campaigns at WWF, and to what degree 1.5˚C should be a concern to all of us.

Most importantly, hear all of their thoughts on what each of us can do to help make a better tomorrow.

A transcript is available on aviva.com

Show notes and further reading:

Dr James Lea: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/staff/james-lea/

Dr Madhu Dutta-Koehler: https://www.bu.edu/met/profile/madhu-c-dutta-koehler/

Kate Norgrove and WWF: https://www.wwf.org.uk/

Isle de Jean Charles: http://www.isledejeancharles.com/island

Aviva joins forces with WWF: https://www.aviva.com/newsroom/news-releases/2021/06/aviva-joins-forces-with-wwf/

WWF ‘My Footprint’ app: https://footprint.wwf.org.uk

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